Are there any known changes regarding Add-Ins in Office 12 (PP)

[Guest]

Dear all,

I developed several Add Ins for PowerPoint. Recently I had the possibility
to check their behaviour in Office 12. Unfortunately it was not possible to
load them. Are there any known or advised changes regarding Add-Ins in Office
12, especially for PowerPoint Add Ins ? For answers thanks in advance.

Cheers,

florian

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I developed several Add Ins for PowerPoint. Recently I had the possibility

to check their behaviour in Office 12. Unfortunately it was not possible to
load them. Are there any known or advised changes regarding Add-Ins in Office
12, especially for PowerPoint Add Ins ? For answers thanks in advance.

Office 12 is in beta; anyone who has a legal copy has signed a non-disclosure
agreement and can't discuss it publically.

There are some links to MS sites with publically available information here:

Office 12 / PowerPoint 12 - What's coming?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00723.htm

With luck, one of those links will answer your questions.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your qucik anser. But sorry I provided the wrong versioning, the
version I'm talking about is available right now, seems to be 2003 or Office
11. The AddIns I tested were written for Office 2000 or Office 9, so
therefore I need information about possible changes regarding Office 2003.
Perhaps you can give me a hint, were I can find some ?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for your qucik anser. But sorry I provided the wrong versioning, the
version I'm talking about is available right now, seems to be 2003 or Office
11.

Oh, ok then. Yes, 2003 (or 11) is the current version.
Offhand, I can't think of any major changes to the way addins work, except that if
there's an automatic installer, it'd need to use slightly different registry
settings.

What specific problems did you encounter?

The AddIns I tested were written for Office 2000 or Office 9, so

 

[Shyam Pillai]

There have been significant changes to the Object model in PowerPoint, since
PPT 2002, especially with regards to animation. If you are developing
add-ins which manipulate animation settings then you will need to rewrite
your add-in to capitalize on the new features.

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

In addition to Steve and Shyam's good advice, if you add code that is
specific to PPT 2003 then it can be problematic if it also needs to
run in PPT 2000. The 2003-specific code should be placed in it's own
module which is only called after determining the version of PPT you
are running in. If it's not then the code will not compile prior to
running in PPT 2000.

Brian Reilly, MVP

 

[Guest]

Dear all,

much thanks for your answers. I decided to take Brian's "approach", since
the current AddIns runs quite stable unter PP 2000.

Cheers,

Florian